That’s an interesting way of applying the movement Les. The arm trapping would not have occurred to me. Thanks for sharing. I tend to see the motion as a parry, redirect, trap enemy’s arm under the lower arm, double hit to base of skull and floating ribs.

I do a similar (not the same) arm trap as part of my Naihanchi drills. At 2:00 in the video below you can see me using the “cup and saucer” position in that way. It would not have occurred to apply the end of Saifa along those lines though. I like it!

that actually fits the first gedan-shuto-uke in our Passai kata quite well.

Hi Noah

I can see how it works in your version, we have high shuto in this sequence.

Iain Abernethy wrote:

That’s an interesting way of applying the movement Les. The arm trapping would not have occurred to me. Thanks for sharing. I tend to see the motion as a parry, redirect, trap enemy’s arm under the lower arm, double hit to base of skull and floating ribs.

I do a similar (not the same) arm trap as part of my Naihanchi drills. At 2:00 in the video below you can see me using the “cup and saucer” position in that way. It would not have occurred to apply the end of Saifa along those lines though. I like it!

Hi Iain

we do this application too, we dont't have Tekki/Naihanchi in our system but it works very well.